Training and Workshops
Whether you work in housing, drugs and alcohol, careers, fostering or youth work; whether you run a business: We can offer training to your staff team to meet their learning and development needs, and make your place of work a safe and inclusive environment for all. This can be on a range of topics, including:
- LGBTQ+ awareness and allies training
- Safeguarding and supporting trans staff and clients / service users
We offer a range of formats: online or face-to-face. We can deliver from 90 mins LGBTQ+ whole-staff-team awareness briefing, to half-and full day in-depth training sessions. All of our training is tailored bespoke to your environment and context. We can also deliver community workshops to your client / community group, covering:
- Identity, equality, discrimination and being active bystanders against hate
Content of training and workshops:
LGBTQ+ Awareness and Allies Training - Depending on session length, we will cover some or all of these topics:
- Understanding LGBTQ+ terminology and concepts, and intersectionality
- Exploring and challenging our ideas about sexuality and gender
- Media Misinformation Myth-busting
- The Equality Act and LGBTQ+ people's rights
- Practicing being active bystanders against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
- How to safeguard and support trans children in your role
- Understanding the history of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK as a tool for moving forwards
- Creating safe and inclusive workspaces
Safeguarding and Supporting Trans Students Training - Depending on session length, we will cover some or all of these topics:
- Understanding Gender Identity terminology and concepts, and intersectionality
- Exploring and challenging our ideas about sexuality and gender
- Media Misinformation Myth-busting
- The Equality Act, current contexts and trans people's rights
- Transition: what it means, and how to support clients in your role
- Practical advice in your workplace: Toilets, name changes and pronouns
- Practicing being active bystanders against transphobia
- Creating safe and inclusive workplaces
Expert consultancy
We can also provide expert consultancy around a range of topics, including:
- Reviewing your policies and procedures to ensure they are inclusive of LGBTQ+ staff and clients / service users
- Writing and implementing a service-wide trans inclusion policy
- Developing an inclusive RSE curriculum
Costings
Unfortunately, there is currently very limited funding for organisations providing LGBTQ+ training and support. While we try to keep our costs minimal to ensure our work is accessible to all training budgets, we do have a small cost associated with our training and consultancy. This is priced on a tiered scale for state funded services, third sector organisations, and private sector organisations.
If you are interested in getting a quote, please get in touch via training@thebrunswickcentre.org.uk.